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To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak.

Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic. Milton.

Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- Frenet"ic*al*ly, adv.

Frantic. [Obs.] Orrery.

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

Mad; frantic. [R.] They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan.

A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [Obs.] "Raging frantic froes." Draylon.

ilar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbæus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; - - called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.

diment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal.

Antic tricks or motions. B. Jonson.

One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale. [Written also jubartas, gubertas, dubertus.]

Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Gigantic. [Obs.] Bullokar.

ts' use; -- called also gold paint. (b) (Zoöl.) A bivalve shell (Anomia glabra) of the Atlantic coast; -- called also jingle shell and silver shell. See Anomia. -- Gold size, a composition used in applying gold leaf. -- Gold solder, a kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of gold, two of silver, and four of c…

formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. "Grotesque design." Dryden. "Grotesque incidents." Macaulay.

Pinkerton. Guinea corn. (Bot.) See Durra. -- Guinea Current (Geog.), a current in the Atlantic Ocean setting southwardly into the Bay of Benin on the coast of Guinea.-- Guinea dropper one who cheats by dropping counterfeit guineas. [Obs.] Gay. -- Guinea fowl, Guinea hen (Zoöl.), an African gallinaceous bird, of the g…

rge deposit of ore in a lode. Gulf Stream (Geog.), the warm ocean current of the North Atlantic.

t portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.